Our guests were leaving us this morning... weather permitting. We brought them to the airport at 9:00 this morning, only to see them heading back into the store to buy some snacks at about 2:00 this afternoon. It's not so bad, Fran was making a beef roast that was too much for us anyway, so now she just needs to throw in a few more potatoes and carrots to feed two more. We had made some of the post departure changes already, but it was actually just as I was about to bring the arm chair back downstairs, that I saw them out of the window. Not like it's that important to you, but I'll tell you of the most major change for us anyway. In the front of the house, the stairs are on the outside of the house, and that's the door that we had been using, since the back door had lots of daylight showing and was propped shut by a table leaf. One of the things that they did was to replace the back door, together with the deadbolt and door knobs. The theory being, that with the back stairs being indoors, there would be less shoveling, less ice build up, and therefore much safer all around. This small change of course requires us to move all of the jacket hooks, outerwear, and footwear, as well as going off to the Co-op to buy a slush mat for the doorway. We didn't realize until we started cleaning up the stairway that we hadn't been using, how much they had used the basement during the construction phase, and therefore how much re-cleaning we had to do in the basement now that we were going to walking past it several times a day.
I was certainly planning for my few hours of allowed remote control ownership, to watch Ian's debut with the Carolina Hurricanes tonight. I guess that I still will, only with several guests and plenty of interruptions.
Yesterday, my blog officially went over 400 hits, with one page "The Joke's On Me (I Guess)" hitting 50 all by itself. Russia has also really picked up on the hits, taking over fourth place behind Canada (of course), US, and Slovakia. I don't know and don't care why all of these strangers are tuning in, but they keep doing it.
Anyway, I might be able to cash in a few hours tomorrow, to watch some of the CFL playoffs in peace, since our guests are scheduled to fly out tomorrow at nine in the morning... weather permitting.
Stay tuned.
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